Robert Reimann (United States Navy officer)

Robert T. Reimann (c. 1936 - June 29, 2014) was a U.S. Navy rear admiral. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he graduated from Boston University in 1958. He then attended the Officer Candidate School at Newport, Rhode Island, and was commissioned into the United States Naval Reserve as an ensign on 1 May 1959.[1]

Rear Adm. Robert T. Reimann demonstrates a prototype gasket for shipboard hatches in 1991.

As a flag officer, Reimann commanded Pearl Harbor Naval Base in 1987, was Naval Sea Systems Command's deputy commander for surface combatants in 1989, and was the deputy assistant chief of naval operations for surface warfare in 1991.

At NAVSEA, Reimann helped oversee the 1988–89 repair of the USS Samuel B. Roberts (FFG-58) by Bath Iron Works in Portland, Maine, after it was nearly sunk by an Iranian mine during Operation Earnest Will.[2]

After retiring from the Navy, he went to work for Rumpf Associates International, a defense contractor based in Arlington, Virginia.[3]

He married Iris Johnson, with whom he had two children (Robert Reimann Jr, and Lynne Reimann), and had four granddaughters.[3]

Notes
  1. United States Congress 1992, p. 121.
  2. Peniston 2006, p. 216.
  3. "ROBERT REIMANN Obituary - Herndon, VA". The Washington Post. July 14, 2014. Retrieved 2017-09-29 – via Legacy.com.

References
  • Peniston, Bradley (2006). No Higher Honor: Saving the USS Samuel B. Roberts in the Persian Gulf. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-1-59114-661-2.
  • United States Congress House Committee on Appropriations (1992). Department of Defense Appropriations for 1992, Part 6. US Government Printing Office. ISBN 9780160356698.


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